???I pulled the working CreativeMX CDROM out of my PC and swapped it with a working Benq burnerCDROM.
I did the mechanical work first. Unplugged and replugged in to other machine.
Then fired up the machines and went on the net doing stuff.
That stuff "did not" consist of getting drivers for the CDROM's and I do not have the original driver disks for either of the ROM's.
So I did my email and then powered them down for the night.
Reason for swap - one machine has faster mobo speed
Next time I fire it up is when I get that there is a problem reading: mbr on C drive.
So I swapped the CDROM's "back" thinking that would fix the problem.
Nada
So, now I am stuck at DOS and can't load the driver(once I find a copy off the net-am hoping that works onto a 1.4MB floppy because A:/> is about all I got to work with.
Am I thinking rationally and correctly?
1. As there is no access to the mbr then there is no access to the cdrom driver that is in the C drive now, so I have to re-introduce the information to the pc so it will activate the CDROM?
XPpro is on the computer and I do not have the original CD.
I have a Win98se boot disk and a Win98cd(I figure I could get the repair tools from the 98CD once I got the CDROM to run.
Or is there a hole in my thought process(I haven't had a coffee yet.)
It is an older 1050Mhz tower PC with a Quantum Fireball Plus AS harddrive20GB.
I have no cdrom. Only floppy A. so to get the cdrom to work I got to??
